Route 66 from Barstow to Kingman - the heart of the Mother Road
Highlights of RVing Route 66 between Barstow and Kingman - Podcast 347
Route 66 from Barstow, California to Kingman, Arizona offers a lot of interesting history, sights, people and places that are well worth visiting and we share our experience with them in this week’s StressLess Camping RV podcast.
We cover things like the Bagdad Cafe, Mrs. Orcutt’s Driveway, Amboy Crater, Roy’s Amboy Motel (we stayed there!), Goffs and Kingman, Arizona. We even finally got our first brewery in of the trip - amazing!
We also had a tacky soda challenge and, believe it or not, teriyaki beef soda wasn’t the worst.
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Automated transcript of StressLess Camping RV podcast episode 347
Peggy
Welcome to week two of getting our kicks on Route 66.
Tony
This week, we traveled the Mother Road from Barstow to Kingman, Arizona.
Peggy
We hope that you enjoy our photos, videos, and memories as we celebrate 100 years of Route 66.
Tony
We have this week's podcast, along with daily updates, the notes, and all the stories that go with this episode, plus discounts, deals, helpful tips, and more at our home on the web at stresslesscamping.com.
Peggy
Thanks for following along, and we really appreciate your likes and shares. Welcome to podcast episode 347.
Tony
Stressless Camping.
Peggy
Stressless Camping.
Tony
I'm Tony.
Peggy
I'm Peggy.
Tony
And we're two RV industry veterans who are traveling part-time...
Peggy
In a mini light group.
Tony
Yeah, looking to share big adventures and get your kicks on Route 66.
Peggy
We're trying to decide what a group of mini lights would be called.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
Okay, so here we go. Are you ready?
Tony
No.
Peggy
We are following the National Trails Highway here in the beginning, and the first stop that we came to was the Bagdad Cafe in Newberry Springs.
Tony
This place has been made famous in movies and TVs, and it is... It's just nuts.
Peggy
Right. Now, it has a couple of vintage trailers on the outside. One's actually set up like a lounge, and the inside is just something to see.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
And it would take hours to actually see everything, uh, so you might want to slow this video down. And one of the things they had is socks!
Tony
Foozie's Route 66 socks.
Peggy
Yeah. You have some, right?
Tony
I have one pair, but now I'm gonna have more pairs.
Peggy
I'm going to get a pair, too.
Speaker 3
If you're gonna get some, I'm gonna get some.
Peggy
So we all ended up buying new Route 66 socks.
Tony
Yep.
Peggy
And this place was just so wild to see.
Tony
Yeah, and it was-
Peggy
So much stuff all over the walls
Tony
... really made more delightful by the people who were there behind the counter.
Peggy
Absolutely. Now, Bagdad Cafe is no longer a cafe, but it is a gift shop, a fun place to stop, and a really friendly, friendly place.
Tony
We did get to interview one of the ladies there, and there was a lot of background music, but without any further ado, here you go. So what's your name?
Speaker 4
My name is Marian Bucks.
Tony
And you are apparently the caretaker at the moment of the-
Speaker 4
At the moment. There's, uh, three of us, and, uh, I'm working right now the morning shift.
Tony
Uh, tell me about this crazy place here.
Speaker 4
I'll tell you what. In 1987, they filmed the movie The Bagdad.
Tony
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 4
Uh, Percy Aldridge was a German producer, and he was going down the freeway, the 40, and saw a rainbow, and said, "You know what? Let's go find that rainbow." And it was right here at the Bagdad, and that's where he filmed the movie, The Bagdad Cafe.
Tony
Huh?
Speaker 4
Uh-huh. And then in 1992, they changed it back to The Sidewinder. It was originally The Sidewinder.
Tony
Okay.
Speaker 4
Then they changed it for the movie, The Bagdad Cafe. Then they changed it back over to The Sidewinder. Andre bought it in 1992, Andre Pruitt, and, uh, started calling all the tour buses, and that's how it became famous. The French- the, uh, Germans produced the movie, but the French adopted it.
Tony
Well, okay.
Speaker 4
And then we have anywhere from 3 to 10 buses come in a day, starting in March.
Tony
Sounds good. Well, thank you.
Speaker 4
You're welcome.
Peggy
Marian was so gracious and such a good storyteller, and she posed for some pictures with us. She made sure we all had something to do with our hands, ... which was a lot of fun. So it's a good place to stop. Uh, this is the look of it from the outside, and did you notice there's a lot of stickers?
Tony
Hmm.
Peggy
Well, guess what?
Tony
Sticker.
Peggy
I want to be close to the Wonder Hussey.
Tony
Oh, yeah.
Peggy
So we're gonna go right here.
Tony
All right.
Peggy
So we got our sticker stuck onto the- Stuck with my finger ... front of the Bagdad Cafe. Now we'll know if it's sun fade.
Tony
Right.
Peggy
From there, we actually drove on Mrs. Orcutt's driveway. Really good story. She insisted on having a driveway directly from Route 66, so this, like, four-mile straightaway is super popular for drag racing.
Tony
Yeah, it used to be that MotorTrend magazine would come here and test cars as fast as they could go.
Peggy
And from there, we were also able to see the Volcano House, which was built on top of a volcano in the middle of the desert. Would you want to live in a place like that?
Tony
No.
Peggy
Next stop was the Ludlow Cafe, where they sell T-shirts, and they do have a cafe. Uh, but they had a T-shirt, the same T-shirt Tony was actually wearing.
Tony
I took this picture. This is the middle of nowhere, but ooh-la-la, the gas prices were insane.
Peggy
Yeah. Bill took a little walk. In, in the town, there's an old abandoned building, and there's some graffiti. Now, these look 3D, but they were literally just paint on the side of the building. Such really good art. Um, I went in to make some sandwiches in the camper and discovered that I- ... missed one item off of my checklist that morning.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
Then after that, we drove past Pisgah Crater. We didn't stop, but we did end up stopping and doing a little hike at Amboy Crater. These are both cinder cones, and, uh, from this picture, you can see where we were camping, and you can see our shadows there. Amboy Crater is a, a cinder cone. I, I was gonna say big, but it's not super big, but, um, because none of us actually made it all the way to the top to take our own picture, I looked on Google Earth, Google Maps, and I found this picture that someone had taken-...
Peggy
from the inside of the crater. So it's really cool. If you ever get a chance and can walk all the way up there, it's really neat.
Tony
That's the whole story! Then we went to look at the Roadrunner Cafe sign, which has recently been rebuilt so that the neon actually still works. Unfortunately, it was not turned on when we were there, but still, a nice sign.
Peggy
They are still on the lookout for an electrician that can get it to work.
Tony
However, where the electrician has done their job and there is working neon is at, I think, the most photographed place on Route 66.
Peggy
I think so.
Tony
No, quite literally, it's Roy's in Amboy, and we actually got to spend the night there under the Harvest Host program, which means that we got to take advantage of our solar and lithium system from ABC Outfitters.
Peggy
Yes.
Tony
And it just performed brilliantly, as brilliant as that neon sign.
Peggy
We have another sticker. I think I'm gonna put it right here, 'cause whatever was there isn't readable. I don't wanna cover up anybody's stickers.
Tony
Ta-da!
Peggy
And we have another sticker on Route 66.
Tony
Yeah, let's hope they're colorfast. There's a bunch of weird stuff, like this Carmen Ghia and some other sorta art installations. There's a shoe tree, quite literally, a lot of the old town-
Peggy
There's a tribute to Roy Okur- I'm sorry, Albert Okura, who owns Roy's, and he also started, uh, Juan Pollo Chicken in the '80s.
Tony
Yeah, but he also owns the McDonald's Museum.
Peggy
The McDonald's Museum in San Bernardino that we've talked about before. Now, it does say on out front of Roy's to be safe and not be silly and not stand in the middle of the street taking pictures, so they are nice enough to have painted a sign off the road on their driveway, and so we posed at Roy's in, in, you know, with a Route 66 sign. But also, I just couldn't resist being actually on the street and taking some photos- ... getting our kicks, showing off our new socks that we just bought on Route 66.
Peggy
We were careful. We kept a lookout-
Tony
Yeah
Peggy
... but we weren't being so safe.
Tony
Yeah, not, not really.
Peggy
The town manager, Ken, is super cool at Roy's, and he told us all sorts of stories. This is another one of those places where if you just have, you know, an hour that you wanna look at the inside of a gift shop, you can spend that hour looking at the inside of this gift shop.
Tony
Yeah, but it's just a, a place to wander. Um, like, there's remnants of the town, remnants of an old hotel, and all of that.
Peggy
And they sell craft sodas, a bunch of different brands of craft sodas, which we will talk a little bit more about in a short while.
Tony
Yeah, but this used to be a cafe and isn't presently because of water rights or water issues, uh, but that may change, so, uh, they're doing a good job of trying to bring this place back.
Peggy
Yeah, absolutely. So again, all kinds of stuff to see, all kinds of, you know, great memorabilia on the walls, and as I said, Ken was super nice, and Tony did a nice interview with him to get some information. One of the great things that Ken did was take Tony... well, all of us, really, into the lobby of the hotel, which is not normally open.
Tony
Yeah, it's usually closed.
Speaker 5
I always notice something else that derail my- so they're just- place just seems so plain and, you know, their tastes change over time. Now, when I walk in here, every time I walk in here, this is called Googie architecture.
Peggy
Uh-huh.
Speaker 5
It's a very specific kind of architecture, and I don't think most people even understand it. I didn't at first. Everything is deliberately not square. That wall's not straight to that wall. That wall's not straight to that wall. That one's not square. That one's not square. Nothing in here is square. It's deliberately all odd angles.
Tony
Can you imagine?
Speaker 5
As someone who had a contracting background for years-
Tony
We also got to see the secret bar.
Peggy
Yeah, we did. Uh, so then we're back on the road again, and we had to get on the highway because actual Route 66 is closed. There's a bridge out, and, uh, uh, we saw a rest area that was closed in California.
Tony
I don't know if we've ever seen-
Peggy
So shocking
Tony
... one open in California - ... but, oh, well.
Peggy
But the next night, we stopped in Goffs, California, and wow, we got a great introduction from the staff there. We got great, great parking sites. So this is a Harvest Host, but it, it's a campground.
Tony
It's one of the best places I've ever stayed, and Peggy saw a display that she just totally dug.
Peggy
Digged. I dig it, man.
Tony
Come on, you're shoveling it on deep.
Peggy
What I did not dig up was the flowers. I love these mallow that were in bloom. I don't know why. I'm just fascinated by the flowers. Uh, you can see the f- minis back there in the background.
Tony
And this is another chance we used our solar and lithium system from ABC Outfitters, and it just, again, performed flawlessly. We... I, I wish we had spent more days here. We just-
Peggy
Absolutely
Tony
... loved this place.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
There's a lot of old mining equipment on the property, as you can see here, and, uh, just a, a fantastic place to stay.
Peggy
Yeah, there's mining, train, military, and there's also the old schoolhouse, and that's really kind of, quote, unquote, "the attraction" there. This has got to be the biggest schoolhouse or schoolroom, vintage, you know, historic, that I can ever remember seeing. Usually, they're so small, you know, like the size of a bedroom, and this place was really big, really great display.... um, a docent that was really informative and helpful.
Tony
Yet it's still a one-room schoolhouse.
Peggy
It's still a one-room schoolhouse, but just-
Tony
Just one big room
Peggy
... all the stuff, all the stuff that was there at Goffs in, in the town... I don't know if there's more to the town of Goffs, but we d- we didn't have time to see everything that was here at this stop, let alone -
Tony
Let alone just all this stuff-
Peggy
Try to look for a town
Tony
... on the back of this flatbed.
Peggy
Yeah, so we wandered around the town, and we saw the old train station, and we walked out into the desert a little bit, and, uh, Tony was taking some video and... Wait, what? There's a phone booth- Hello? ... in the middle of nowhere.
Tony
And this is a throwback-
Peggy
In the middle
Tony
... to a phone booth that was in the middle of nowhere-
Peggy
Hi there. Thanks
Tony
... and got taken out by the BLM, because it was such a distraction, but...
Peggy
Okay, remember that soda challenge I told you about? Now is the time that we get to test those sodas we bought at Roy's. This tasting didn't really make very good audio, so I won't bore the audio listeners with the entire tasting. If you wanna see it, you go watch the video . We had four flavors. We had snozberry, prickly pear, pumpkin root beer, and beef teriyaki.
Tony
Geez.
Peggy
And how did that end up?
Tony
Um-
Peggy
So on a scale of, uh, one to I never wanna see that again- ... I, I think actually the, sadly, the pumpkin root beer loses-
Tony
Yeah
Peggy
... this time.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
It, it's pretty horrible. This is just innocuous.
Speaker 6
Yeah, it was kinda nothing.
Tony
Not very flavorful.
Peggy
Mm-mm. And I would drink either one of those.
Speaker 6
I like the-
Peggy
Snozberry or prickly pear.
Speaker 6
The pear I think was more appropriate for the desert.
Tony
Yeah, I agree.
Peggy
For the desert.
Tony
The prickly pear was better.
Peggy
And it wasn't, it wasn't quite as sweet.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
That was pretty sweet. Well, there you have it.
Tony
Prickly pear wins.
Speaker 6
Yeah.
Peggy
What strange sodas can you find? The other thing at that Harvest Host was they have a solar shower, which is just a really long black hose in the sun. We did not try it. The next day, we headed out, and we went to Needles first. Uh, we went to the Wagon Wheel, where I got attacked by a gorilla . And we had breakfast there, and Tony found a pair of pants that he hopes he never fits into.
Tony
Well, I ended up... Well, I could fit into it, like, completely, but yeah, don't want that size.
Peggy
Yeah, and then we lucked into a car show.
Tony
Yeah, you cannot beat that. You know, you're on Route 66, and there are a whole bunch of vintage cars. Uh, they had some beautifully restored cars, some hot rods, some restomods. They had, uh, some really unusual classics that were there. There were lowriders, a really good collection of cars, so I, of course, being the auto nut- ... enjoyed them very much.
Peggy
Now, the reason we went there actually was to see the Harvey House at the Needles Algarsiss Train Station, and we also saw the s- the mural, the Needles mural on the side of the museum, where Spike actually, uh, lived.
Tony
Spike is Snoopy's brother.
Peggy
Snoopy's brother, Spike, right, and then we saw the Borax wagon. Now, the Borax wagon was from, uh, like 1880 or something, and we thought it would be fun to see the difference between how people used to travel back then and how people travel now. So there's the Borax wagon and our travel trailer together.
Tony
It's a Studebaker wagon.
Peggy
Now, as you cross over the Colorado River, you actually get to see the London Bridge, and then we got to Arizona, and we stopped at a campground called Trade Winds RV Park.
Tony
And we do have a full story about that in our campground reviews section at stresslesscamping.com.
Peggy
They have nine overnight, kind of short-term spaces and 90 long-term spaces, so it's a fun... It's a nice park. They have a good laundry room. They've got horseshoes and cornhole, and they've got-
Tony
Lots
Peggy
... a few different areas where they have-
Tony
Lots of old tractors
Peggy
... old tractors.
Tony
That's what I like.
Peggy
Yes.
Tony
There's one tractor there. Boy, if I could load it into the back of our truck- ... I'd do it. There it is .
Peggy
Yeah, so one of the nights that we were there, the weather's been a little cold and icky, so we did movie night. We watched the movie Cars, and sitting in our trailer, which was fun, and even Bailey, Kate's dog, enjoyed the movie. Well, I don't know if she was looking at the movie or the popcorn. I'm not really sure.
Tony
I'm guessing the popcorn. She's a bit of a chow hound.
Peggy
So the next day, the first stop is Cool Springs.
Tony
Which they claim is the original Radiator Springs, coincidentally.
Peggy
Ah.
Tony
"Hey, there's my friend Mater!"
Peggy
Mater. Here's another one of those gift shops that you could spend hours just looking at all the stuff for sale, and memorabilia, and rocks, and stickers.
Tony
Yeah, and it's in the middle of the path between Kingman and Oatman, basically.
Peggy
Right, right.
Tony
It's like there's nothing around.
Peggy
It's basically the beginning of Sidewinder Road-
Tony
Yeah
Peggy
... which is eight miles from here to Oatman and 191 turns.
Tony
It's insane, yeah.
Peggy
It is a twisty, windy road, but it's a really cool stop, and one of my favorite displays was this thing... You know, they always have those things where, uh, X to town is so many miles away. This one was completely blank.
Tony
Can't get there from here. I also had some fun with the black-and-white settings on my camera, just, uh, just goofing around, so-
Peggy
And you know, the obligatory head hole po- picture. We stuck our heads in the picture, and the obligatory sticking on a sticker.
Tony
Hey, watch this.... I put it at the top of the doorjamb. There are a lot of stickers.
Peggy
Yeah, there were a lot of stickers. It was hard to find a place.
Tony
Oh, wait, I'll put it here.
Peggy
Right around the corner-
Tony
Yeah
Peggy
-on the doorjamb.
Tony
At least it's protected from the sun up there.
Peggy
But we also saw the, I guess, smallest or most open rest area-
Tony
Yeah, someone basically-
Peggy
Which is just a toilet-
Tony
-put a toilet
Peggy
... sitting out there. We set up a really fun shot, but messed up the camera, so Bill luckily got a behind-the-scenes picture of our shot.
Tony
Yeah, of toilet paper. Then it-
Peggy
There's a spring called Schaffer Spring, and that is on the road up, and there's not a lot of parking, but we parked a little ways away. Okay, so I walked all the way up from that gray truck way down there, all up the street, and up this hill, so that I could ponder, 'cause we heard that there were goldfish in this pond. They must be sleeping. But I haven't pondered in a while, so there you go.
Peggy
We saw where somebody missed one of the turns on the Sidewinder Road-
Tony
Yeah, not a good thing
Peggy
... and, uh, ruined their day, apparently. But these guys were having a good time.
Speaker 7
I want one of those.
Peggy
It's three, like, off-road kind of four-wheelers that are racing up Sidewinder Road-
Speaker 7
...
Peggy
-having a good time. It's a really beautiful view from up on the top viewpoint. But we were on our way to Oatman.
Tony
And Oatman is famous for donkeys, among other things. It's an old mining town, and it used to be, this was Route 66. Oh, there they are.
Peggy
So not really donkeys. We're gonna keep saying that by accident, but they're technically burros.
Tony
Oh, wow!
Peggy
Yeah. Uh, and I really like the legend of Pearl, the ghost burro, who stuck to her master all the time, and when she showed up one time without her master and they never found him, now they say that Pearl haunts Oatman.
Tony
Oh.
Peggy
But Kate got a chance to feed the burros.
Speaker 3
Number 19 of 50, feeding a donkey. At least he's not being an ass, yeah?
Peggy
Kate's goal is to do 50 things in her 50th year, and she's only at 19, so-
Speaker 3
You just want more cookies?
Tony
She has a ways to go. Well, she had a lot of-
Speaker 3
Aw
Tony
... truck and trailer issues.
Peggy
She did. We had lunch inside the Oatman Motel, which was wowza full of dollar bills on the walls. So we added our own. We each signed a, a dollar, and we found places to staple them up to the wall.
Tony
Yeah, they even gave us the stapler.
Peggy
They did.
Speaker 3
What are you doing?
Tony
I'm stapling a buck to the door.
Peggy
A door that didn't wanna stay sh- stay in place, so it was a little awkward.
Tony
This place is great if you want more staples in your diet.
Peggy
Oh, boy. Oh, boy. So I don't know what the legality is of defacing dollar bills, but I assume that if you get caught, they put you in this punishment cell-
Tony
Yeah
Peggy
... because I was just walking around, and there was the cell, and then there was somebody locked up in it, and probably for defacing-
Tony
Who's that?
Peggy
... a dollar bill. Oh, whoops, it was Tony.
Tony
Yeah.
Speaker 3
We're in the wild west, and Kate's gonna do a little shooting here.
Peggy
That was a fun little shooting gallery that Kate and Tony hung out in for a while.
Tony
Yeah, Kate's a remarkable shot.
Peggy
There's also a lot of murals in Oatman. This was one of my favorite ones, 'cause it spells out Oatman. Um, there's a store also that sells German-style nuts and-
Tony
There was a German-
Peggy
-malt balls
Tony
... nut who stopped by there
Peggy
German nut stopped by.
Tony
That was me.
Peggy
And there's a shootout.
Tony
Yeah. These guys tell a lot of great funny jokes, but they also, uh, raise money for the Shriners.
Peggy
So they pretend to rob an ATM machine, and he eventually comes out with a bag of money. I guess he was having trouble get- oh, there, he got it.
Speaker 7
You're right. Didn't check the stagecoaches. Tell you what, we'll get the horses.
Tony
The- unfortunately, their mics were having some issues that day.
Peggy
Yeah, they were having trouble with the mics.
Tony
But not the guns. The guns were a-blazing. You'll see in just a moment. Uh, so hold your ears, kiddies.
Speaker 7
I thought I'd get started to Mexico.
Speaker 8
But we're not going to Mexico.
Speaker 7
Well, I am.
Speaker 8
Well, you can go, but the gold is staying here. Don't make me put a hole in you.
Peggy
It's a penny squishing machine.
Speaker 3
So I couldn't decide between the donkey and the miner.
Peggy
I got the miner.
Speaker 3
So I just said, "Whichever one comes up first..."
Peggy
Yep.
Speaker 3
And it was the donkey.
Peggy
Yep.
Speaker 3
So I probably already have-
Tony
Yeah, Peggy didn't get gold, but she got copper.
Speaker 3
... up there.
Peggy
And I didn't get put in jail for defacing money.
Tony
Yeah.
Speaker 3
There we go. Go.
Peggy
But I got a new smashed penny-
Speaker 3
She's still about squishing a penny
Peggy
... little donkey, for my album. That was a really fun day in Oatman.
Tony
It's just the kind of place we like. It's a kitschy little town with a lot of gift shops.
Peggy
Yeah. We... And went out one night to the Rickety Cricket for beer and pizza.
Tony
Believe it or not, our first brewery of the trip.
Peggy
I know! It's been a while. So they had-... flights on really, really heavy holders. They had a fun pizza selection. I do recommend their Dirty Dough pizzas.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
They were really unusual, and the dough was fantastic.
Tony
It's using the spent grains from the brewing process.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
They use those for a number of things, including a sauce that they made.
Peggy
Then we drove through... Now, this is kind of a rainy night. We drove through the Kingman Route 66 shield. Made the truck look nice and shiny.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
The next day, Bill drove through the shield, and Kate drove through the shield, and we decided we better get our kicks in the shield on Route 66. And, and there's a little dog park, and so even Bailey got a chance to go through the shield and get her picture taken. Then we went inside the museum in the powerhouse, and they have a really great Angel Delgadillo display. He's the guardian angel of Route 66.
Tony
And don't tell anybody, but we are going to get to meet him this coming weekend, so we'll have an interview with him coming up for you.
Peggy
Yeah, absolutely. So one of the parts of the display was Angel with a barber chair, because he was a barber. So Tony sat down with a cap head of hair and stood up with a bald head.
Tony
Of no hair.
Peggy
Of no hair, but Angel made him look real purty as a picture.
Tony
Well, I don't know about that, but-
Peggy
So he decided to phone home and tell everybody that he got his hair cut by Angel Delgadillo. Now, this is in the powerhouse, so there's also an area where you can see a portion of the powerhouse... Well, the ex-powerhouse, sorry. You can see how the powerhouse was built and how it works, and it's just a fun museum, all sorts of fun segments of the museum. And then we kinda drove around Kingman. We saw the Beale Hotel. We saw a bunch of murals.
Peggy
Kate got to ride on a chuckwalla. The train museum was not open, but we did kinda poke through the windows a little bit and watch a train go by. I always really loved this old cart from 1907 that held the luggage. There was also the Ramada Hotel, which an artist actually lived there and just painted kind of Route 66-style-
Tony
Yes, they let him loose
Peggy
... people all over the place. We also went to El Travatore, which is the-
Tony
Yeah, it's supposedly-
Peggy
... longest-
Tony
One of the longest-
Peggy
Route 66 mural
Tony
... Route 66 murals. We've stayed there on previous trips.
Peggy
There's mural, like, on every building of the motel, and they have all these cartoon characters and everything.
Tony
This was a really cool sign that we kinda goofed around with, a Route 66 sign, in a park there in Kingman. Uh, we had a lot of fun making silly poses and, uh, just having a good time with this.
Peggy
Tony even got himself stuck in the hole.
Tony
Yeah, I did. I need- I needed to get help out.
Peggy
Then we went for lunch to Mr. D'z.
Tony
Yeah, and we sat in the same booth we sat in last time we were there.
Peggy
It's our table now.
Tony
That's right. And I got a really- well, Peggy got this really good sandwich. I... All the food there has been really, uh, top-notch to me.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
And, uh-
Peggy
It was, like, a BLT, plus turkey and avocado.
Tony
I got a peanut butter malt.
Peggy
Everybody got malts, except me. I got root beer.
Tony
Well, they make their own.
Peggy
Yep, and Tony had huevos rancheros-
Tony
Which was outstanding
Peggy
... which was outstanding, and they are expanding, and so they actually have a new gift shop. So Mr. D's Gift Shop has this really cool mural on the wall, another, you know, Route 66 mural. And I have been looking for a specific T-shirt for the whole route, and I found it, just to discover that they make them so small. The two extra large was about the size of a medium.
Speaker 9
Ba, ba, ba! Hey, everyone, it's Matt and Will, the founders of Liquified, the best RV toilet tank treatment in the industry. Now, Will, everybody's heard of our RV toilet tank treatment, but a lot of people here at the Quartzsite RV show isn't super familiar with our gray tank treatment. Tell us more about it.
Speaker 6
Yeah, guys, a lot of times we find that gray tanks can smell worse than black tanks.
Speaker 9
Mm.
Speaker 6
Reason being is little bits of food particles get in there. It grows mold, can grow mildew, all kinds of stuff going on in there. That's why we l- we launched our gray tank treatment. This is a different fragrance designed for your kitchen sinks or your showers and, and bathroom sinks as well. It's designed to break down the food particles, kill the mold in the tanks, and get rid of that mildew smell.
Speaker 9
Especially not having a gray tank flush-
Speaker 6
Yes
Speaker 9
... like you do a black tank flush. If anything, it's actually more important to pour Liquified down your gray tank than your black tank, but obviously it's super important to do both. So make sure you guys check us out online. Go to liquifiedrv.com. Thank you so much, Tones. Ba, ba, ba, ba.
Peggy
Ba, ba!
Tony
Well, that's-
Peggy
That was our week
Tony
... on Route 66, so hopefully you enjoyed it. Uh, if you're not following us on social media, make sure to do so, because we are posting regular video and, uh, written updates. Of course, our website is the home of all the things that you'll need to- ... either get your kicks or just enjoy some stressless camping, tips, tricks, ideas, and destinations. Uh, and with that, thank you for joining us on our adventure, and most of all...
Peggy
Stressless camping.
Tony
Stressless camping.
Peggy0
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